Also during Easter holidays: EVERY Tuesday 10:45am Taizé harmony singing with Ralph @ the Hope Baptist Chapel www.hope-baptist.org.uk(a venue for people of all faiths and no faith to explore and develop spiritual and emotional wellbeing)Singing - and silence. You are welcome to listen - or join our singing. No exprerience or music reading required. Cost: free (donations welcome)

Ralph is looking for additional work as a home carer, gardener & more top of page

Ralph has a background as a town planner in Germany. He has returned to a more simple life style in England and has lived 15 years in Cambridge. He is looking for work in or around Hebden Bridge (including Hepton Stall, Old Town, Mytholm, , Charlestown or Mytholmroyd).

Spring Cleaning all year round - "Get it done!" Sorting / organising / de-cluttering any mess / chaos in your cupboards, drawers, home, garage, shed or garden, blitz cleaning with German efficiency, help with establishing systems which work and help keeping all clean and tidy. Ralph is good at motivating you to transform your home - and indirectly your life - for only £10,-/ hour.
Ralph is quite capable of doing othe basic work in your home like painting, tiling, repairing things.

Home Care: Since December 2012 Ralph is working as a personal assistant for Dr. Robert Blomfield (01422 844259) in Hebden Bridge, who is happy to give references for Ralph. Ralph has been working as a home carer in Cambridge since 1998. He is offering "home care with heart" for £10,-/ hour, including other jobs in and around the house, cleaning, tidying up, shopping and personal care. He really cares about you, motto: "Work is Love in Action."=> Work References for Ralph

Gardening: Ralph has 14 years experience as a gardener, including weeding, tree pruning and shaping, hedge trimming, lawn mowing, landscaping, levelling lawn and slabs etc. for a range of clients in Cambridge, since September '12 also around Hebden Bridge.
Ralph combines heavy gardening with German efficiency and a sense for beauty for £10,-/ hour.

He is also a thorough cleaner and "man about the house", including painting, tiling, simple carpentry and maintenance, cleaning gutters and willing to get his hands dirty for any odd job.
=> Work References for Ralph

Ralph's & Vitalija's favourite groups and interests in Hebden Bridge top of page

we love Devotional chanting, and we know 100s of chants and accompany them with drum and guitar.
We started a monthly chanting group Sat evening in the attic of our new home - see entry on the Calderdale Peace Dance and Chanting page. You are welcome to join us and experience the power and magic of devotional chanting. Please e-mail rainbowralph[AT]gmail.com, and you'll be invited to our next chanting.

NEW from 4th March:Taizé harmony singing EVERY Tuesday 10:45am with Ralph @ the Hope Baptist Chapel (a venue for people of all faiths and no faith to explore and develop spiritual and emotional wellbeing). Cost: free / donations

Ralph is joining the "Calder Valley Voices" community choirwww.caldervalleyvoices.org.uk is based in Hebden Bridge,
meeting 7.15pm on Thursdays at the Hebden Bridge Methodist church (Hebble End / Market Street)

Ralph is a member of the international spiritual sister- and brotherhood of Subud (worshipping God / the Creative Life Force across religious boundaries with what we call "the Latihan").
Ralph plans to organise Info events about Subud & the Latihan in Hebden Bridge [ => News / Events above]
The nearest Subud group meets in Bradford-Shipley.
More about Subud here and: www.subud.org.uk. Excellent article: "My Personal Introduction to a Spiritual Path" by Sharif Horthy
on www.raymondo.demon.co.uk/books/sharif.htm

We are attending the sharing group "Sacred Activists / Awakening Consciousness" (space to share and listen to each other, bringing to the group whatever we feel is appropriate). 10-12 noon on Mondays, off Hangingroyd Road (opposite the coop). Phone Deb on 01422 845881 for details.

Why Vitalija and Ralph wanted to move from Cambridge to Hebden Bridge top of page

We have decided to follow what we feel like guidance and want to move from Cambridge (our home for 16 years) to the Hebden Bridge area in Calderdale, West Yorkshire in September 2012.
Our friend and landlord wants more space in our house with his partner,
so he asked us to move out. We feel it's probably a blessing in disguise.

We both love mountains and miss a hilly landscape in Cambridge.
We discovered, that some of our dear Dances of Universal Peace friends live in or around the Calderdale area. We visited them, and we were welcomed with open arms and open hearts. When we visited Hebden Bridge, both of us felt very happy there - and everyone tells us, that Hebden Bridge would be the ideal place for us.
What really matters in life for us is the heart - so we hope to find some real heart connections.
2012 is the year of big changes...
We are excited - and a bit sad to leave behind some friends, home care clients, gardening customers, several peace dancers, the house cat Felix and the re-designed garden.
And we are a bit tense: we have hardly any savings, no home and no work (yet) in Calderdale.
We started packing, radical de-cluttering and re-writing CVs...

If you like to help us, please send your positive thoughts / wishes / prayers, that we'll find the right work and place to live.
Any help or hints from you is appreciated.
We are both open to new and unexpected turns in our lives.
Ralph & Vitalija, September 2012

"Steps"from "The Glass Bead Game"
by the German poet Hermann Hesse

"As every blossom fades
and all youth sinks into old age,
so every life's design,
each flower of wisdom,
every good attains its prime
and cannot last forever.
In life, each call the heart
must be prepared courageously
without a hint of grief,
submit itself to other new ties.
A magic dwells in each beginning,
protecting us
tells us how to live.

High purposed we must traverse
realm on realm,
cleaving to none as to a home,
the world of spirit
wishes not to fetter us
but raise us higher,
step by step.
Scarce in some safe
accustomed sphere of life
have we establish a house,
then we grow lax;
only he who is ready
to journey forth
can throw old habits off.

Maybe death's hour too
will send us out new-born
towards undreamed-lands,
maybe life's call to us
will never find an end ...
Courage my heart,
take leave and fare thee well."